"Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who controls the state Education Department through its governing board, helped a motorcycle-riding ex-beauty queen and a former Assembly ally land a job at the schools agency. Although he opposes efforts he says would politicize the agency, Silver (D-Manhattan) helped former Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer, who is close with the speaker, land the $84,000-a-year job as legislative liaison last September."

The question begs, Thankfully ex-"Assemblywoman" Janele Hyer-Spencer thanks of course in part to the greatest Republican Party chairman who has ever lived, in now three-term Brooklyn GOP Chairman, the "Immortal" Craig A. Eaton.

"That’s a $4,500 raise from the $79,500 she was previously paid representing Brooklyn for four years before a bitter 2010 defeat.

Hyer-Spencer, 47, is a lawyer who never worked in the education field before joining SED.

“There’s no question she was hired because of Shelly Silver,” said one source close to the department. Do you think [the department] would have hired her without checking with the speaker’s office?”

The question begs, In other words Janele Hyer-Spencer has no "experience" in the education field, she voted for Shelly Silver so she must be "qualified" to help continue running our education department into the ground.

“It was an open secret for some time that Shelly and Janele were very close and that the speaker was interested in doing what he could to advance her,” added another source close to Assembly Democrats. “He was very disappointed, and I’d say upset, when she lost her election, and the word around is that he’s been trying to help her.’’

The question begs, However this reform minded commentator points out maybe Sheldon Silver should have did a bit more of this to help his "Tax-Payer" funded "Barbie".....